Alex Slade
CTO at UpMail
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Slade is a pragmatic CTO and senior software engineer with 15 years building startups and small businesses, blending product strategy, market-fit thinking, and hands-on engineering. He has deep expertise in Ruby, JavaScript and Elixir and regularly moves between roles as consultant CTO, interim technical lead, or solo builder depending on company needs. Alex has a strong track record shipping customer-facing products—from founding a direct-to-consumer startup that sold ~20,000 kits to leading engineering at Beano Studios and driving technical strategy at UpMail for major hotel groups. He pairs architecture and hiring decisions with practical implementation, including introducing AI and machine-vision workflows for automation and realtime systems. Based in Exeter, he’s as comfortable restructuring legacy Rails apps as designing Elixir-based realtime services, and often brings a network of specialists to round out early-stage teams.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (191)
embedded-software10
telegram-bot10
html10
elixir10
dsl10
telegram-bot-api10
middleware9
javascript9
liveview9
testing9
function-call9
genstage9
telegram9
embedded9
modernizr9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
georgeadamson/Steppes2CRM
Aug 2010 - Jun 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 10 months
heeton/starling_elixir
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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